Deep Water, cover of another edition (the Harper 1957 cover is not yet photographed)

Cover of another edition of this book. The Harper 1957 jacket has not been photographed yet.

First edition Hardback

Deep Water (1957)

Patricia Highsmith · Harper, New York

Publisher Harper Year 1957

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Who published the Deep Water first edition?: Harper, New York, in 1957, in hardback.

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How Harper marked its first editions

From 1912 Harper & Brothers printed a two-letter code below the copyright notice giving the month and year of printing: the first letter is the month (A for January to M for December, skipping J) and the second is the year, starting with M for 1912.
The year letters ran out with L for 1936 and began again with M for 1937, so a code such as "D-Y" can mean 1924 or 1949 and the book itself must settle which; a first printing of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor (1949) carries "D-Y", April 1949.
The code records when that copy was printed, not the copyright year, so a later printing can carry the original copyright date with a later code: a Brave New World dated 1932 on the copyright page but coded "H-S" was printed in August 1943.

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